Nutrition May Instigate, Accelerate or Reverse Disease

Please note that the following are personal notes from my readings. None of it should be viewed as medical advice. Please always consult with your physicians to determine what decisions are best for you and your family.

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Animal Protein May Instigate and / or Accelerate A Wide Range of Diseases

Heart disease, diabetes and obesity can be reversed by a healthy diet. Other research shows that various cancers, autoimmune diseases, bone health, kidney health, vision and brain disorders in old age (like cognitive dysfunction and Alzheimer’s) are convincingly influenced by diet. Most important, the diet that has time and again been shown to reverse and/or prevent these diseases is a whole foods, plant-based diet.

Antioxidants, found in fruits and vegetables, are linked to better mental performance in old age

Kidney stones can be prevented by a healthy diet

Type 1 diabetes, one of the most devastating diseases that can befall a child, is convincingly linked to infant feeding practices

These findings demonstrate that a good diet is the most powerful weapon we have against disease and sickness. An understanding of this scientific evidence is not only important for improving health; it also has profound implications for our entire society. We must know why misinformation dominates our society and why we are grossly mistaken in how we investigate diet and disease, how we promote health and how we treat illness.

“In chapter three, I described studies in my laboratory showing that when a very potent carcinogen is put into the body, the rate at which it causes problems is mostly controlled by nutrition… Very simply, consuming a Western-type diet will increase the rate at which chemical carcinogens… form products that cause cancer.”

“… As a result of the Long Island study, the hype associating environmental chemicals with breast cancer has been somewhat muted. This and other findings suggest that environmental chemicals seem to play a far less significant role for breast cancer than the kind of foods we choose to eat.”

“The important story here is how the effects of food – both good and bad – operate through a symphony of coordinated reactions to prevent diseases like prostate cancer. In discovering the existence of these networks, we sometimes wonder which specific function comes first and which comes next. We tend to think of these reactions within the network as independent. But this surely misses the point. What impresses me is the multitude of reactions working together in so many ways to produce the same effect: in this case, to prevent disease.

There is no single “mechanism” that fully explains what causes diseases such as cancer. Indeed, it would be foolish to even think along these lines. But what I do know is this: the totality and breadth of the evidence, operating through highly coordinated networks, supports the conclusions that consuming dairy and meat are serious risk factors for prostate cancer.”